Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said their first lunch there went well: "They didn't touch the potatoes, and they looked at the green beans a long time before eating them, but they each had two hamburgers." Donna Knoll, 56, came by with a Vietnamese phrase book to help her new neighbors learn English. Carol Bailey took some of the family out shopping for shoes, and Larry Bailey planned a trip to Fort Dodge to get everybody Social Security numbers. Said Iowa Refugee Service Center Director Colleen Shearer: "Don't people spend their whole lives wanting to show love? This is a rare...
...leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory over James Callaghan's Labor Party. The Tories won a solid majority of 43 seats in the 635-member House of Commons,* and Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government...
...reason for anyone to mark her as a future Tory leader, much less Britain's first woman Prime Minister. She was not a member of any inner circle, not a protégée of any powerful party figure. Attractive in almost too meticulous a way, with a complexion as English as Devonshire cream and the instant smile of a doctor's receptionist, she looked rather like the chairman of a garden club in an affluent suburb. But in her first year as an M.P. she managed to get one of her own bills on the statute books?an early "sunshine...
...changed governments. I'm sure President Carter said the same when he was running for office-after all, he was the challenger. We know that Europe and the Free World cannot be properly defended unless America stays in Europe. The ties of history, the ties of the English-speaking peoples are really very great indeed. They should outlast Presidents and Prime Ministers...
...chip has a vocabulary of 250 words, and another chip called Vowel Power can add 150 more. The voice is a male monotone patterned after the Midwestern accent of a Dallas radio announcer. Says a TI public relations man: "We were looking for standard American speech-not good English, just very American...